Promoting Your Library
The GMR staff would like to assist you in celebrating your library.
National Medical Librarians Month
Assistance from the GMR
- Promotional items you can order from the GMR
- Educational Supplements can be used to support your teaching efforts.
- Patient Safety: Librarian as Advocate contains the file from an oral presentation.
- Measuring Your Impact is a library evaluation class that network members can request.
- 2007 Letter to Hospital Administrators
In honor of the National Medical Librarians Month, the Greater Midwest Region is pleased to support our hospital librarians by re-instituting the Hospital Administrators Campaign. We have composed a advocacy letter to hospital administrators informing them of the invaluable services medical librarians provide. If you would like to participate in this effort simply send an email with the information for the addressee to
A draft can be found above. - Send Suggestions - The Regional Advisory Council Library Advocacy Working Group (RACADV) is soliciting feedback from our members. Members have the opportunity to express what efforts they would like the committee to focus on going forward by sending an email to RACADV at UIC.EDU
Assistance from NLM
- Information Rx
NLM's free program that helps librarians promote consumer health resources. - Add PubMed to your website
- Linking to Medline Plus
Assistance from other Sources
- ALA supports library advocacy
- PNR, our sister region, maintains a bibliography on library advocacy
- ACRL's Advocacy Site for Academic Institutions
- Web Junction
- Hospital Library Advocacy Blog
eBlogger has been hosting a weblog devoted to hospital advocacy for the last two years.
